JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. ^oZZ^l 



Vol. LXXIV., Paet II.— Extra Number, 1907. 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By Sm George 

 King, K.C.I.E., LL.D., F.E.S., late Superintendent of the Boyal 

 Botanic Garden, Calciitta, aiul J. Sykes Gamble, C.I.E., F.E.S., 

 late of the Indian Forest Department. 



No. 20. 



The present Part contains the descriptions of three FamiHes, No. 89 

 AcanthacecB, which was only finished by the late Mr. C. B. Clarke, 

 F.E.S., just before his lamented death in August, 1906, and Nos. 91 

 LabiatcB and 92 Plantaginacece, which have been done by Lt.-Col. 

 Prain, C.I.E., F.E.S., Director of the Eoyal Gardens, Kew. 



The 3 Families comprise 54 genera and 166 species. In the Acan- 

 thacecB there are 35 genera and 134 species, of which 5 genera and 

 68 species are new. In the Ldhiatce the genera are 18 and the species 

 31, one genus being newly described. But it is worthy of note that of 

 the 31 species only 16 are really native in the Malay Peninsula, the 

 rest being introduced plants. One species only is endemic, Plectran- 

 thus Kunstleri, Prain. In PlaJitaginacece there is merely one genus 

 containing one species, an introduced weed. 



It may here be usefully recorded that, in addition to his work on 

 the Malay Peninsula Acanthacece herein given, the late Mr. Clarke also 

 prepared an account of the species of the Malay Archipelago, which 

 will shortly be published in the ' Journal of the Linnean Society.' 



Part No. 21, which will contain two Families, No. 86 Gesneracece 

 and No. 90 Verheyiacece, and thus complete the Gamopetalae, may be 

 expected to issue about the New Year. 



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